How common is a August 26 birthday?
August 26 is a fairly common birthday in the U.S. It ranks 64th out of 366 days, with an average of 11,657 births a day from 1994 to 2014, 4% more than a typical day.
- Rank
- 64th of 366
- Births on an average day
- 11,657
- Zodiac sign
- ♍ Virgo
- Likely conceived around
- December 3
Where August 26 falls in the year
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Average daily U.S. births, 1994-2014
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Famous people born on August 26
- Tom Ridge(1945)
- Barbara Ehrenreich(1941)
- Geraldine A Ferraro(1935)
- Branford Marsalis(1960)
- Will Shortz(1952)
- Wolfgang Sawallisch(1923)
- Macaulay Culkin(1980)
Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics (1994–1999) and Social Security Administration (2000–2014), via FiveThirtyEight. About the data